We have to love because we love loving.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
JOHN GALSWORTHY